HERACLES GENERAL CEMENT COMPANY S.A.
Announcement of sale of dividend
The Company hereby announces that, pursuant to the relevant resolution of its Shareholders' Ordinary General Meeting dated 15.06.2007, the dividend for the financial year 2006 amounts to 1.00 Euro per share. Beneficiaries of the dividend are all shareholders of the Company by the expiry of the session of Athens Stock Exchange on Monday, June 18th, 2007. The shares will be traded ex-dividend at the Athens Exchange as of Tuesday, June 19th, 2007. The payment of the dividend for the year 2006 will begin on June 27th, 2007. In accordance with article 329 of the Athens Stock Exchange Regulations and article 39 of the Central Securities Depository (already as ''Hellenic Stock Exchanges S.A.''), dividends shall be paid by National Bank of Greece. Shareholders shall collect their dividend as follows: 1. Through their Administrators (custodians/ banks or Stock Exchange member firms), as long as such administrators are entitled to collect the dividend. 2. Through National Bank of Greece network of branches, upon producing documentation of their Investor Account in the Dematerialised Securities System (DSS), as well as their identity card, in case they have not granted their Administrator with the relevant authorisation to collect the payable dividend or their shares are kept with the Central Securities Depository (already as ''Hellenic Stock Exchanges S.A.''), in the Special Account, or they are kept in accounts of not appeared shareholders. A duly authorised third party other than the shareholder him or herself may collect the dividend only by presenting the relevant authorisation document attested by a Police or other competent authority.